The story shares its title with Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan, a novella by Morgan Robertson that was published in 1898, but which eerily predicted many aspects of the 1912 Titanic disaster. A 1912 reprint of the book is featured in the narrative.

In TV: The End of the World, the Ninth Doctor recalls being in a ship that was called unsinkable and wound up clinging onto an iceberg. It is implied to be the Titanic but could be a reference to being on the Titan.

There is no confusion between this audio story and the comic strip Follow That TARDIS! which says the Titanic was sunk in an attempt to capture the Monk, because the real Titanic does not appear here.

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